the quote in question was not coming from the journalist that "bashed out some text" tho but from a team member. Thanks anyway for lashing out at the profession in general coz who do they think they are, right. Gotta know your limits, right?
>Veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher has described Matt Mullenweg’s move to shut down WordPress’s sustainability team as “bizarrely heinous behavior.”
>Members of the fledgling WordPress Sustainability Team have been left reeling after WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg abruptly dissolved the team this week—an action prominent tech journalist Kara Swisher has described as “bizarrely heinous behavior.”
>In a scathing post on Threads, veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher posted a screenshot of Mullenweg’s announcement in Slack and called him a “stone cold asshole.”
So no, the individual in question is a "journalist" and not a WordPress employee/contributor.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot, on multiple topics. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we've already asked you to stop.
She wrote this in a casual post on Threads [1], not an article. There’s no attempt to “sensationalize for clicks” here. Journalists don’t have to be in journalist mode all the time when they’re communicating casually.
You seem to have a rather large chip on your shoulder.
She said what everyone has been saying for weeks. The wording is also clearly her opinion, nothing hidden there. She also included Mullenweg's post so everyone can read the source.
Are you saying that journalists can never share an opinion? Also, are you trying to argue Mullenweg is only looking bad because of journalists? His own actions and words seem to be doing a pretty good job on their own.
Your comparison between humans and machines is revealing. If you want a soulless computer to tell you what’s going on in the world, talk to Grok or something. Humans have personalities.
People can be multiple things at once as mind blowing as that may seem.
They can act in public as a journalist and at the same time have private opinions that they share on social media.
Just as programmers not only “design schedule or plan radio or television programs”, journalism is not just “journaling”
> Honestly, Matt gets my kudos if for no other reason because he's the bigger man (relatively speaking) by engaging in artful trolling instead of plainly undressed insults.
That is a pretty plainly terrible mindset, but one that I don't think is very uncommon.
